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Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana, whose TV credits extend back to NBC’s “Homicide: Life on the Street” and HBO’s “Oz,” have been signed by the National Geographic Channel to do a miniseries on the last days of the American Embassy in Saigon. The production titled “Last Man Out,” will chronicle the evacuation of the embassy at the end of American involvement in the Vietnam War. It will be written by Fontana and executive produced by him and Levinson. The announcement, which was made Wednesday at the Television Critics Association press tour in Los Angeles, was reported by TheWrap. “Last Man Out” is expected to premiere in 2016,...

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